Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-15

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and wage slaves remain to vex the
authors of their misery. We do not need
| them.
THREATENING DEMOCRACY.
MERIDIAN, TEX, July 5, 1887.
/ To the Editor of the Gazette
1t is not often that have anything to say to
newspapers, but want to give you my hand By
way of Endorsement of your editorial, Demo
Gratis and Democrats" Every Democratic
newspaper in Texas ought to publish this ar
ticle. Il viii do great good, not to prohibition,
but to Democracy. Itluay be that we can use
our political guns to better advantage than in
shooting our own men and that before the
Close of lSS5. Texas has long needed a big
daily newspaper that would advocate the true
principles of the Democratic party, and THE
GAZETTE fills the bill. May you live long and
grow stronger. l have written these lines TO
add what encouragement l could FOR you in the
! discharge of duty to the Democratic party.
Truly yours, ". II. LOCKETT,
Chsirman Sixth Cong Dist.
THE GAZETTE has grateful appreCia-
ton Of Mr.. Locbett's commentator.
This paper realizes the danger to Demo-
craCy in the course pursued by certain
journals and speakers in the present can
vass and as Democratic success is essential
TO the enforcement of Democratic prinCi-
Dles in government, The GAZETTE views
with alarm any effort to disintegrete or
weaken the Democratic party. THE GA
zETTE has cited, on previous occasions,
instances OF revolt against the Democratic
rule as proclaimed at Galveston by o
Democratic convention, and, from two
articles lately published in the Dallas
Times, adds two more threats which are
but emphasized uttersnces of the recalci-
trancy now so marked in certain Demo
cratic journals OF the stste:
The Times WILDE sorry when the hour comes
for parting with the prohiGitiOnists politically,
because there are many in prohibition ranks
whom it has supported and for whom It has both
respect and friendship personally. Bus that
hour must come. They will hereafter belong
to party different to the Democratic party.
In all conscience they are forced to vote for the
prohibition candidates for President and Vice
President.
1t is going to be pretty hard times when some
of the pTOhibitionists are told that they cannot
participate in Democratic conventions. but the
Democrats must firmly do their duty. And
they VIII do 1t. The gentlemen who are trying
to go into Office by the new route Will find the
road short. They wiz get to the end of 1t, and
ind their reward as the gold at the end OF the
barroom.
These paragraphs sre selected because
they come from newspaper which has
the courage of its convictions, and which
does not, as do its contemporaries, con-
ceaI It's meaning by insidious word and
phrase.
The Democratic convention of state
is the supreme authority on all questions
affecting the action Of the party of
the state, and while individuals may
dissent from any declaration they
cannot conspire to effect organized
resistance to the party declaration
to the hurt OF any Democrat save them
selves, and the protests OF THE GAZETTE
ere more in the interest of the recalci-
trants than of the men whose right in the
! Democratic party they presume to ques-
ton. The same majority that had the
power at Galveston TO declare vote on
prohibition no test of fealty to Democra-
cy, will have the power in 1883 to reiter-
ate and emphasize that declaration; and
those Democrats who are now passing in
judgment on the Democracy of others may
find themselves in quandsry next year,
THE GAZETTE, which is 8 Demo-
cratic journal, and which believes
in Democratic integrity as it does
in Democratic principles, protests against
the assumptions of any faction which
threaten to place that faction in an atti-
tude of open hostility to the party next
year, to the weakening of the Democratic
| strength in the state.
There are "some OF the prohibition
lists" whose presence in Democratic
convention would be as strange specta
Gle as would be the presence of Wade
and Cochran and DEGREES and Ne1comb
in such convention, and it may be taken
for granted that prohibition and anti-pro-
hibition Democrats will guard the outer
door of Democratic conventions with the
like zeal and fidelity hereafter.
The attempt of some men to set them
selves up SIS higher authority than the
Democratic convention is more danger
Gus TO Democratic unity end to such men
themselves than to those who sre Unrest
ened with expulsion; but THE GAZETTE,
as loyal Democratic journal, protests
against disruption whether the elected
be Prohibitionists or anti-Prohibitionists
and pleads for Democratic unity through
loyal obedience to Democratic authority
as expressed at Galveston.